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Along with fraud and coercion, Cam and his colleague, embedded journalist Aamer Madhani, found on US military bases widespread de facto debt bondage coupled with the confiscation of foreign workers' travel documents.
President George W. Bush on Friday signed legislation extending key provisions of the anti-terrorism USA Patriot Act until February 3, despite earlier objecting to anything short of a permanent renewal.
Iraqi Oil Minister al-Uloum has been temporarily released from his post amid a dispute over the government's petrol pricing policy. He is to be replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi. A guy who got 0.38% of the vote.
The walkout rasied the stakes in the ongoing battle between Chinese journalists and their political masters, who are keen to keep control over the written word. Chinese newspapers and magazines remain entirely in state hands, but the Internet has pro
After reviewing the number of hits top local stories at his newspaper's Web site got in 2005, Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat concludes, "As I look back at the year in news, it's clear I should have focused more on people having s
The Marine Corps is paying $100,000 apiece for a revamped Vietnam-era jeep as part of its program to outfit the hybrid airplane-helicopter V-22 Osprey, Pentagon records show.
In Motown v. Nelson, pending in federal court the defendants have made a motion for attorneys fees against the RIAA attorneys, for unreasonable and vexatious litigation and improperly interfering and/or obtaining false testimony from a prospective wi
All Electronic Voting Software created by Diebold and Others Should Have Federal Certification Immediately Withdrawn Based on Forbidden, yet Newly Discovered 'Interpreted' Code!
The U.S. Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay was funded almost entirely by corporations linked to embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff
The US government does have a plan to invade Canada. It's a 94-page document called "Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan—Red," with the word SECRET stamped on the cover. It's a bold step-by-step plan to invade, seize and annex our ne
The 9-11 attacks provided the rationale for what amounts to a Bush family coup against the Constitution. From the outset, President Bush used the attack to reorganize and increase the federal government’s reach far beyond any existing law to delve in
The proposal released sets requirements for crew qualifications and training, and establishes training and informed consent for passengers. Physical exams for passengers, trained on how to respond during emergencies. Pilots must have an FAA pilot cer
Muqtada al-Sadr, the firebrand Shiite Muslim cleric who just a year ago encouraged his followers to kill U.S. soldiers, has successfully transformed his ragtag followers into a political force that could dramatically reshape the next parliament.
The police I consider honorable kill the terrorists they capture. If we brought them back to the station, they might to bribe their way out. (death squads)
Without whistleblowers the public would never know of the many abuses of constitutional rights by the government. Whistleblowers, Truth Tellers, are responsible for the disclosure that President Bush ordered unconstitutional surveillance of American
At some point, Farris Hassan, a 16-year-old from Florida, realized that traveling to Iraq by himself was not the safest thing he could have done with his Christmas vacation. And he didn't even tell his parents.
The UK government has been quick to deny that we practice, or tolerate the practice of Torture. So it is perhaps not suprising that they are determined that you should not see the following documents:
An international team has agreed to review Iraq's parliamentary elections, announcing that members would travel to Iraq in response to protests by Sunni Arab and secular Shiite groups that the polls were tainted by fraud.
An Australian who travelled to Iraq to marry his cousin and ended up imprisoned in the notorious Abu Ghraib jail for "security reasons" has finally been released by the US military, after being held without charge for 2 years.
3 military service chiefs have been dropped in the Bush administration's doomsday line of Pentagon succession, pushed beneath three civilian undersecretaries in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's inner circle.
Nearly $2 million for a doctor's office in Washington state; $725,000 to buy land in Florida, and $371,500 to buy land in Oregon are a few examples of questionable federal loans granted for businesses hurt by the 9/11 attacks, according to an off
Nearly 3 years after President Bush created the Department of Homeland Security after the September 11 attacks, the sprawling agency still faces management problems that were partly to blame for the poor response to Hurricane Katrina, an internal aud
CBS Flips KZON to Free FM Dec. 23, 2005 By Tony Sanders Another modern rocker bites the dust. CBS Radio is flipping KZON Phoenix to its Free FM talk format, effective Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006. The Zone was already earmarked as one of thee stati
The UN called on the US to resolve a dispute with Iraq over a 1.4-billion-dollar no-bid contract awarded to to Kellogg, Brown and Root and financed through Iraqi oil revenue. The US-led Coalition Provisional Authority set up awarded the contract
The Foreign Office has demanded that Craig Murray remove two especially damning British government documents, indicating that his government was knowingly receiving information extracted by the Uzbeks through torture. Craig Murray is refusing to do
Thomas and other black lawmakers know they are in for a battle as Republicans stand determined to defend the law, which requires voters who do not have a driver's license to buy a state-issued ID card for as much as $35 — a fee critics say hurts
On the orders of the Bush administration, the NSA eavesdropped on the private conversations and e-mail of its own employees, employees of other U.S. intelligence agencies and their contacts in the media, Congress, and oversight agencies and offices.
U.S. forces are working to complete a major expansion of detention facilities in Iraq as a growing prisoner population nears 15,000 amid questions about when Iraq's government will be capable of taking control.
The effort President Bush authorized shortly after 9/11, to fight al Qaeda has grown into the largest CIA covert action program since the height of the Cold War, expanding in size and ambition despite a growing outcry at home and abroad over its clan
Iraqis of all stripes say they are the descendants of Mesopotamia, the glorious cradle of civilization, which gave birth to law and the written word. And asked their faith, Iraqis often testily answer with the refrain: "There is no Sunni. There
